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The Trebuchet Challenge | Space Time
Kinetic and potential energy are defined as combinations of more basic quantities: position, velocity and mass. These combinations are chosen so that their sum is conserved. It’s actually remarkable that there’s any such combination of...
Crash Course
Energy & Chemistry: Crash Course Chemistry
Grumpy Professor Hank admits to being wrong about how everything is chemicals. But he now wants you to listen as he blows your mind with a new sweeping statement: everything (yes, really everything this time) is energy....
SciShow
The Physics of "Punkin Chunkin"
"Punkin Chunkin" is the United State's annual contest to see whose homemade machine can hurl a pumpkin the farthest (without explosives!). Every November, thousands of amateur engineers converge on a farm in Delaware to put their...
Flipping Physics
Introductory Conservation of Mechanical Energy Problem using a Trebuchet
Learn how to use the Conservation of Mechanical Energy equation by solving a trebuchet problem.
Programming Electronics Academy
LED Stuffed Pumpkin :: Halloween Arduino Project
It all started with a trebuchet. I was inspired by helping a friend who built a small trebuchet on his birthday and thought it would be fun to make a larger one that could shoot...
Curated OER
Table Top Trebuchet
How cool would it be to build a trebuchet 1/40th the size of one that would have been used to knock down a castle wall? Build this project with middle or high schoolers at any level (varying the information provided for each), and have a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet
On NOVA, a team of carpenters, timber framers, engineers, and historians recreate a medieval throwing machine called a trebuchet. This adapted video segment explores how understanding energy transfer informs their design. [4:17]